Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] she [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernice suddenly found she badly needed a drink , but her hip flask was empty . |
| 2 | My mother was so dazzled she never even thought to question him about his job , but she grew to live for the visits he made daily to the shop . |
| 3 | Just to herself — you know , not out loud like she normally does . |
| 4 | On going back downstairs in her working clothes to do the washing up , she felt a quiet pride : not only had she now achieved the status of a married woman , but she had also had a proper wedding with a cake and an attendant — which was more than did most girls of her class . |
| 5 | So had she once walked and talked herself in that same garden — or so it now seemed to her — with the young Irishman who had recovered the amethyst and diamond cat which she still wore , very often on her collar and which she had longed — very badly , she remembered — to give him as a keepsake . |
| 6 | I 've just noticed she actually uses the sentence being a Green Party supporter is n't meant to appeal to everyone . |
| 7 | She 's sitting down with her back to me , just like she always used to , and I 'm brushing slow and gentle , making her hair nice and neat . |
| 8 | ‘ Six months ago , we never thought she would ever achieve her ambition but , fingers crossed , I 'll soon be taking her to the school gates and she can sit in class with the other youngsters , just like she always wanted . ’ |
| 9 | And then , since her father 's fatal heart attack eighteen months ago , no sooner had she slowly started to come to terms with his loss , to face the grief and despair at the thought of never seeing him again , than her mother 's letters and telephone calls had begun to fill her with stunned horror . |
| 10 | Full of new hope that maybe our rethink might be working he struck into what appeared a solid fish , although this was a little misleading as the cat had picked up a little weed and once freed she quickly surrendered . |
| 11 | Her expression remained enigmatic , and it was quickly noticed that not once did she publicly smile or acknowledge the man who was now her husband . |
| 12 | Clyde , obviously a fairly tense type , confessed to feelings of hostility towards his mother : ‘ Not once did she ever tell me she loved me . ’ |
| 13 | Do you does she ever does she ever play out at all or ? |
| 14 | Three times as the president spoke , Diana flashed him the kind of flattering sideways glances she once gave Charles . |
| 15 | If I tried to picture Mum now like she really is , getting a Sainsbury 's pizza out of the freezer in the kitchen or doing up the seatbelt of her silver Ford Fiesta , I could n't . |
| 16 | But she frowned now , for how well did she really know him after all ? |
| 17 | Nevertheless as a woman , a foreigner and a usurper , Catherine was never in a position to dispense with the backing of the landowning class in Russia even had she ever dreamed of doing so . |
| 18 | She could not even say she truly felt she had had Ferdinando with her those four months . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's almost like she never existed . ’ |
| 20 | Only then did she briefly introduce herself . |
| 21 | Only then did she fully realise that if she had been five minutes later the watchers keeping a lookout for a stray boy might , tomorrow , have been hauling ashore the sodden body of Gus Hambro . |
| 22 | She describes herself as ‘ big and strong ’ , even though she readily admits she probably is n't actually that big — that 's just the way she feels about herself , the way she feels she has to be . |
| 23 | One of the lawyers ' wives wanted to know the secret of Ellen 's coffee , and Ellen modestly said she just followed the percolator instructions , while the truth was that she put a cupful of cheap instant coffee powder into every percolated pot . |
| 24 | It had been so vivid it seemed real , yet had she really been idiot enough to set out on a rough sea in a mere dinghy ? |
| 25 | She liked to take walks alone , and occasionally pretended she completely belonged in St James 's Park or Kensington and always had . |